[R] Multi-threaded conversion from R data.frame to Arrow table / record batch

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This is the companion issue to ARROW-2968, like pyarrow.Table.from_pandas

Reporter: Wes McKinney / @wesm
Assignee: Romain Francois / @romainfrancois

Related issues:

• [R] Use Converter API to convert SEXP to Array/ChunkedArray (is related to)

PRs and other links:

• GitHub Pull Request #9615

_{Note: This issue was originally created as ARROW-3316. Please see the migration documentation for further details.}

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Wes McKinney / @wesm:
This would be nice to have for benchmarks

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Wes McKinney / @wesm:
@nealrichardson do you know if this was ever implemented?

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Neal Richardson / @nealrichardson:
Not yet but Romain and I have been eyeing this as an end goal of the conversion code refactoring he’s been working on.

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Neal Richardson / @nealrichardson:
Issue resolved by pull request 9615
#9615